Worst reactions to telling parents / relatives your pregnant?

When I fell pregnant with DS - my dad told me I was stupid, that he was going to kill my OH and I should get rid of Stephen cause he was a massive mistake! I disowned him there and then! Still not talking to him and it will be a year tomorrow!!

My mum took it amazingly (which surprised me!) she was so supportive and just wanted to talk through it and find out my plans I.e have I seen a dr, what about uni etc :)
 
2nd baby

MIL - "How could you be so stupid"
and
"You should get on the pill"

(I was on the pill, not that its any of her business, and not that it's gonna make a difference now! :dohh:)

Needless to say I'm sure story will be different when baby arrives, and she'll be crawling....

My Mum, on the otherhand, was more excited than me. :)
 
I've had a LOT of people asking me when I'm going to get sterilised. To say it's annoying is an understatement...
 
My reactions of my mum an dad was fine actually.. my mum said 'amy why didnt u tell me you know u can tell me anythin' my mum told my dad an he didnt say a word to me just gave me a cuddle i was very very suprised!!

My mums brother was the worst!. after movin back to the uk after bein away for 15years he thinks he owns the place an when he found out his kicked off i am only 17 an he thought i would just stand there an let him talk to me like crap he said 'are you F**king stupid! your only a kid yourself!'
so i said to him ' you dont know me so dont talk to me like a kid. i live with anthony and we both work so shut the hell up your not my mum or my dad so i actually dont care what u think'!!
yes that shut him up haha

:-D
 
My parents were congratulatory, but they really didn't want to talk about the pregnancy until I made it to the 2nd trimester. Dad didn't want to be let down if we lost the baby. That was kind of a bummer - as we saw them a lot during the 1st tri and it was always this big elephant in the room that I was pregnant but no one talked about it...
 
my family was all excited, except my brother and his g/f only because they seem to think they are the only 1s who can have a baby.... OHs side was like ya we knew it was going to happen sooner or later
 
Wow some people are idiots! Can't believe some of the reactions we've all had!

The only bad reaction we got was from the my mother and father in law.
My mum cried with happiness as we've talked about wanting a family since we were teenagers and were waiting for the time to be right.
My MIL's reaction was "ohhhhh. it's just so soon" - errr hello we've been together for 7 years and got married that summer. She later admitted that her disappointment was that they thought we'd own our own house before having children. But we're saving for one whilst we rent, both work full time and have planned and been excited about this forever!
The first thing my husbands Dad said was "well that's ur social life gone" as if this baby was a bad thing. Spending christmas with them was rubbish. It was like a taboo.
They're now really happy and excited but i'm left annoyed cus i believe its down to other people making them realise this is amazing.
 
This is number 3 for me. My other two are 12 and 8. I have been a single mother. I never thought I was going to have anymore children. I am excited to have another children. I am in a much better position. Well one of my sisters said. Wow you know babies are expensive. I thought hmm I raised these two by myself. Then she told me there is still a chance I can lose the baby. She said I can lose the baby until I deliver. I thought wow I am glad I have such great support.
 
Hope it goes well hun, at 16 my parents were amazing, Mum said 'a baby's never a bad thing' and helped me throughout my pregnancy and then helped me move when Jack was born, she was wonderful. My dad was lovely, he gave me a cuddle and told me whatever I decided he had my full support. I couldn't ask for better parents, and both are very excited for this one!

Hopefully she'll just be overjoyed she gets to dote on her little grandchild :)
 
my parents reaction sucked.
they started by congratulating me on the phone.
Then i got ambushed on my way home from the doctors by my mum, who then told me she "wanted a word whilst the fiancee was outta the way"
This is were she told me her and my dad weren't happy that i was pregnant and that they dont think im ready and theyre worried about me etc...
Then had the cheek to say she wants to come to all the doctors appointments.

Ridiculous parents.
Grrrrrr.....
 
With our first the In Laws disowned us! My FIL said 'Oh well I wipe my hands of you' and he never saw his FIRST grandson until he was 4yo. Now I am having number 5 they have come around a little but are still never 100% supportive. My MIL says that we are stupid etc etc, but it is our choice. Little does she know that this is the long awaited granddaughter for her. I really don't want to tell her she can wait until it is born. Other wise she will go all stupid, but not with me she will do all that stuff with my SIL. Which is really mean.
 
We've had mixed reactions really. (Despite me being 22, DH being 28, me having a degree and DH having a well-paid job, owning our house outright, and that we got married in August..)

The majority were pleased. It's the first grandchild on my side, and the second on DH's side (but they never seemed that excited about first one tbh.. That and BIL and I REALLY don't see eye-to-eye no matter how hard I try, he's an arrogant arse).

Think my Dad had a small heart attack over the phone, lol. But then every time he called, he would say "remember it's early days yet, don't get too excited." I know he was trying to be protective, but it hurt.

My Nanny was over the moon, but then said "Oooh but you just lost all that weight!" :dohh: And that I'd need to "stop drinking now". Didn't realise I was an alcoholic?

Now this may be a long one.. Enjoy!

My (evil) Nanna got all fake excited over the phone, and then started telling me that I have to breastfeed (she reiterated this by buying me nipple cream and nipple shields for my birthday:dohh:) and started demanding to know if/when I was going back to work, and if she could look after the baby for "a couple of years". Seems reasonable, no? Except she's 200miles away. She's already trying to stick her nose in. (she's torn a lot of the family apart due to her need for control). What she now does is tries to find things that have changed in our plans for what we're going to do, and says "Oh I THOUGHT you were going to do THIS?" and tries to make out like we don't know what we're doing.
THEN there was the stuff she was saying behind my back.. When we had really bad snow she didn't call at all, and was telling everyone she wasn't ringing me as she thought that if she did she'd get the news that I'd fallen over in the snow and had a miscarriage :growlmad:(!!!!)
And she's been badmouthing me (as usual) behind my back telling everyone - including people I don't even know - that the baby was "very much planned" (none of their business if it was, plus we didn't even tell her if it was an accident or not) and she believes that we should've waited longer as I only graduated in July and got married in August, and thus my Medical Science (Honours) degree was a waste of money and I should've just "worked in Tescos for 3 years". She's also trying to tell people it's HER money that's been wasted (as she's trying to convince everyone she paid for my degree and wedding, which she didn't in any way, shape or form!) She's FOREVER trying to butt into our finances and even demanded to know what was in my will - I refused to tell her.
I've since found out (after I declined any offers for her to pay for the pool for the homebirth or any expensive baby things as everything she buys has some sort of clause attached to it) that she's allegedly planning to come up just before I'm due to "help with housework" and "If she gives birth while I'm there I can help out". WHAT?? This is news to me! I already told her NO to coming up the day after the baby is born as we want to be ALONE!

And... breathe.

Sorry that was a little long! :flower:
 
well, when i found out, i told my mum. i knew shes be upset if i didnt tell her straight away. so anyways i waited till the afternoon to call her. she lives in tenerife so i couldnt tell her face to face. so anyways i told her that i did a test and it was positive..... "oh, weve been waiting for this...." and even "can you talk to andy (my OH) about getting an abortion. i wont judge you if you do" which obviously really upset me. but when she had some time to think and let it sink in, she is sooo excited now. shes bought pretty much everything for Lily! i think the only thing ive bought her is stickers for her wall, and some booties!! oh and all the bottles ect. how bad am i, but she has everything she needs. i went to see her a few weeks ago, which was great. for once a visit didnt end up in an argument. and i didnt wanna leave! this pregnancy has actualy brought us closer together which i never thought would happen.... and now im crying! lol
but from when i told her about the baby i never thought that it would end up like this, and ive even asked her to be in the room when i give birth.
 
The first time around everyone seemed so happy and excited but this time all we got was ....oh wow again? or ooh so soon? so not that bad definitely not as bad as some other stories on here but completely annoying after hearing it 100 times
 
My Mum screamed with delight!! She has been moaning for years that she wanted a Grandchild..... so to put it lightly she was a tad excited!

The only person that put a bit of a dampner on it was OHs Grandma, who said she wished we would have waited to get married, but I guess some people just prefer that, so for hers to be the worst reaction, compared to some of the ones on here, is pretty good! Sorry some of your parents/relatives/friends werent too supportive..... xx
 
My Mum screamed with delight!! She has been moaning for years that she wanted a Grandchild..... so to put it lightly she was a tad excited!

The only person that put a bit of a dampner on it was OHs Grandma, who said she wished we would have waited to get married, but I guess some people just prefer that, so for hers to be the worst reaction, compared to some of the ones on here, is pretty good! Sorry some of your parents/relatives/friends werent too supportive..... xx

My MIL bottom lip was quivering with excitement, then his nan said 6 weeks, ahh she's not really pregnant yet! lol
 
My Mum screamed with delight!! She has been moaning for years that she wanted a Grandchild..... so to put it lightly she was a tad excited!

The only person that put a bit of a dampner on it was OHs Grandma, who said she wished we would have waited to get married, but I guess some people just prefer that, so for hers to be the worst reaction, compared to some of the ones on here, is pretty good! Sorry some of your parents/relatives/friends werent too supportive..... xx

My MIL bottom lip was quivering with excitement, then his nan said 6 weeks, ahh she's not really pregnant yet! lol

Ahhhh lol bless her!! My Mum was on holiday when we found out, so OH Mum was told first, and then OH brother..... of course I didnt tell my Mum she wasnt first to know, lol she wouldnt have been amused by that!

But she had gone abit mad buying, she has bought us loads of stuff so far.... but she has been poorly for a couple of weeks and in hospital, so she has been slacking on the buying front LOL (her words, not mine!)

She didnt want to know the sex either, but when I told her OH Mum wanted to know, she soon changed her mind LOL she would hate not knowing if others did! My brother is in Oz and he doesnt want to know what the baby is until he comes home in November...... baby is Due mid-Sept! LOL xx
 

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